But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land!

Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.

Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Me thinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.

The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.

But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon.

The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck.

for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men